Whether tensions between Israel and Hezbollah escalate further would depend on what Israel is doing in the Gaza Strip. That was what Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech on Friday. Barely a day later, tensions have escalated to such an extent that the heaviest fighting has taken place on the border between Israel and Lebanon since 2006.
Hezbollah fired a powerful rocket of a type “not yet used in the fighting” that “hit an Israeli position,” a Lebanese source told Reuters. In response, the Israeli army bombarded Hezbollah targets with warplanes. “Some of the heaviest Israeli attacks yet,” Reuters writes.
“Shocked”
In the war between Israel and Hamas, there is now much outrage about the attack that Israel carried out on ambulances. “I am shocked by the attack in Gaza on the ambulances in front of Al Shifa hospital,” wrote UN chief Antonio Guterres on the social networking site , killed and bombed out of their homes. This has to stop.”
“I have not forgotten the terrorist attacks that Hamas carried out in Israel,” he added. “The murders and kidnappings, including of women and children. All hostages must be released immediately and unconditionally.”
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Heavy bombing on the Israeli-Lebanese border. — © AP
Also a school
According to Israel, the ambulance was one used by a Hamas terror cell and terrorists were taken out. Hamas is also said to have tried to put wounded fighters on the list of people allowed to leave the Gaza Strip via Egypt. Severely injured Palestinians were also allowed to participate, but in an initial version the list would have consisted of no less than a third of Hamas fighters. As a result, the evacuation of foreigners was again delayed.
After the ambulance on Friday, the target on Saturday was a UN-run school that served as a refugee shelter. The Israeli airstrike killed 15 people, said the director of Gaza’s al Shifa hospital, who is also a Hamas spokesman. Israel has not yet confirmed the report.
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UN chief Antonio Guterres expressed his outrage at X. — © AP
South of Gaza
There was also a ground attack for the first time in the “safe” south of Gaza, according to Israel “to map buildings and neutralize explosives.” ‘During the operation, troops encountered a terrorist cell exiting a tunnel shaft. In response, the troops fired grenades at the terrorists, killing them,” the Israeli army said in a statement.
